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is coming to us. 

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of the things you do not need. The bill- 
of-fare is simple and yet ample for the 
needs of the man or woman who eats to 
live, and is not interested gastronomically 
in lobster-palaces or personally in the 
lobsters who frequent them. Here every- 
thing is palatable, nutritious, cleanly, and 
of the highest quality obtainable. We 
play no seconds. Whether it is coffee, 
some old-fashioned Boston Baked Beans 
with Ketchup, or Yankee Donuts, every- 
thing is of the best and is prepared as 
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The story of Alexander Hamilton reads like 
a chapter from the Arabian Nights. Of 
>bscure origin, like Topsy, he appears to have 
''just g rowed,'' yet he attained a place in 
the country's history second to none. His 
face was the face of Julius Caesar — and 
like Jidius he was struck down at the height 
of his fame. 

Surrounded, worshiped, gay, convivial, as 
he was, no mortal could ever have stood more 
utterly alone than Hamilton. On the day of 
the funeral, New York was black. Every 
business house was closed. The eulogy pro- 
nounced aver his grave in Trinity Church- 
yard by his friend Gouverneur Morris may 
well be quoted here: '* / declare to you before 
that God in whose presence we are now so 
especially assembled, that in his most pri- 
vate and confidential conversations, his sole 
object of discussion was your freedom and 
happiness . ... He never lost sight of your 
inifirest<i. For himself he feared nothing: 



but he feared that bad men mighty by false 
professions y acqiiireyour confidence and abuse 
it to your ruin. He was ambitious only of 
glory, but he was deeply solicitous of you." 
Alexander's monument in Trinity Church- 
yard bears this inscription: 
" To the memory of Alexander Hamilton, 
the Corporation of Trinity have erected this 
monument, in testimony of their respect for 
the Patriot of incorruptible integrity, the 
soldier of approved valour, the statesman of 
consummate ivisdom, ivhose talents and vir- 
tues will be admired by grateful posterity, 
long after this marble shall have moiddered 
to dust. He died July 12th, 180 Ji., aged 4^7." 
^ For any of our Hartford patrons who, 
after reading the ivonderfully sympathetic 
and illuminating story of Hamilton's life 
as told by Elbert Hubbard, wish to read 
further, I would recommend the work of 
Gertrude Atherton, the gifted Californian 
novelist, who in The Conqueror, has told 
for all time, in all its details, the true and 
romantic story of Alexander Hamilton. 



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^VERY strong man has had 
a splendid mother. Alexander 
Hamilton's mother was a 
woman of wit, beauty and 
education. While very young, through the 
machinations of her elders, she had been 
married to a man much older than her- 
self — rich, wilful and dissipated. 
And so this finely organized, receptive, 
aspiring woman found her feet mired in 
quicksand. She struggled to free herself, 
and every effort only sank her deeper. 
The relentless environment only held her 
with firmer clutch. 

She thirsted for knowledge, for sweet 
music, for beauty, for sympathy, for 

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attainment. She had a hearki-hunger that 
none about her understood. She strove for 
better things. She prayed to God, but the 
heavens were as brass; she cried aloud, 
and the only answer was the throbbing of 
her restless heart. 

In this condition, a son was born to her. 
They called his name Alexander Hamilton. 
This child was heir to all his mother's 
splendid ambitions. Her lack of oppor- 
tunity was his blessing; for the stifled 
aspirations of her soul charged his being 
with a strong man's desires, and all the 
mother's silken, unswerving will was 
woven through his nature. He was to 
surmount obstacles that she could not 
overcome, and to tread imder his feet 
difl&culties that to her were invincible! 
But earth's buflfets were too severe for the 
brave young woman; the forces in league 
against her were more than she could 
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withstand, and before her boy was out 
•f baby dresses she gave up the struggle, 
and went to her long rest, soothed only 
by the thought that, although she had 
sorely blundered, she yet had done her 
work as best she could. 

T his mother's death, we find 
Alexander Hamilton taken in 
charge by certain njystical kins- 
men. Evidently he was well cared for, as 
he grew into a handsome, strong lad- 
small, to be sure, but finelj^ formed. 
Where he learned to read, write and 
cipher we know not; he seems to have had 
one of those active, alert minds that can 
acquire knowledge on a barren island. 
When nine years old, he signed his name 
iS witness to a deed. The signature is 
needlessly large and bold, and written 
with careful schoolboy pains, but the 

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writing shows the same characteristics 
that mark the thousand and one dis- 
patches which we have, signed at bottom, 
** G. Washington." 

About this time, the boy was also showing 
signs of Hterary skill by writing sundry '^^ 
poems and " compositions," and one of 
his efforts in this line describing a tropical 
hurricane was published in a London 
paper. This opened the eyes of the 
mystical kinsmen to the fact that they 
had a genius among them, and the elder 
Hamilton was importuned for money to 
send the boy to Boston that he might 
receive a proper education and come back 
and own the store and be a magistrate and 
a great man. No doubt the lad pressed the 
issue, too, for his ambition had already 
begun to ferment, as we find him writing 
to a friend, " I '11 risk my life, though not 
my character, to exalt my station," 
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Most great things in America have to take 
their rise in Boston; so it seems m^ that 
Alexander Hamilton, aged fifteen, a 
British West-Indian subject, should first 
set foot on American soil at Long Wharf, 
Boston. He took a ferry over to Cam- 
bridgeport and walked through the woods 
three miles to Harvard College. Possibly 
he did not remain because his training in 
a bookish way had not been sufficient for 
him to enter, and possibly he did not 
like the Puritanic visage of the old pro- 
fessor who greeted him on the threshold 
of Massachusetts Hall; at any rate, he 
soon made his way to New Haven. Yale 
suited him no better, and he took a 
boat for New York. 

He had letters to several good clergymen 
in New York, and they proved wise and 
good counselors. The boy was advised to 
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Elizabethtown, New Jersey &^ &^ 
There he remained a year, applying him- 
self most vigorously, and the next Fall 
he knocked at the gate of King's College. 
It is called Columbia now, because kings 
in America went out of fashion, and all 
honors formerly paid to the king were 
turned over to Miss Columbia, Goddess 
of Freedom. King's College swung wide 
its doors for the swarthy little West 
Indian. He was allowed to choose his own 
course, and every advantage of the 
university was offered him. 
Hamilton improved each passing moment 
as it flew; with the help of a tutor he threw 
himself into his work, gathering up 
knowledge with the quick perception and 
eager alertness of one from whom the 
good things of earth have been withheld. 
^ Yet he lived well and spent his money 
rts if .there were plenty more where it 
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This was in the year Seventeen Hundred 
Seventy-four, and the Colonies were in a 
state of poHtical excitement 5^ Young 
Hamilton's sympathies were all with the 
mother country. He looked upon the 
Americans, for the most part, as a rude, 
crude and barbaric people, who should be 
very grateful for the protection of such an 
all-powerful country as England. At his 
boarding-house and at school, he argued 
the question hotly, defending England's 
right to tax her dependencies. 
One fine day, one of his schoolmates put 
the question to him flatly: "In case of 
war on which side will you fight? " Hamil- 
ton answered, " On the side of England." 
^ But by the next day he had reasoned it 
out that if England succeeded in suppress- 
ing the rising insurrection she would take 

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all credit to herself; and if the Colonies 
succeeded there would be honors for those 
who did the, work. Suddenly it came over 
him that there was such a thing as " the 
divine right of insurrection," and that 
there was no reason why men living in 
America should be taxed to support a 
government across the sea. 
He was young, and burning with a lofty 
ambition. He knew, and had known all 
along, that he would some day be great 
and famous and powerful — here was the 
opportunity &^ &^ 

And so, next day, he announced at the 
boarding-house that the eloquence and 
logic of his messmates were too powerful 
to resist — he believed the Colonies and 
the messmates were in the right. Then 
several bottles were brought in, and suc- 
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Shortly after the young man's conversion, 
there was a mass-meeting held in *' The 
Fields,*' which meant the wilds of what is 
now the region of Twenty -third Street. 
Young Hamilton stood in the crowd and 
heard the various speakers plead the cause 
of the Colonies, and urge that New York 
should stand firm with Massachusetts 
against the further encroachments and 
persecutions of England. There were 
many Tories in the crowd, for New York 
was with King George as against Mass- 
achusetts, and these Tories asked the 
speakers embarrassing questions that 
the speakers failed to answer. And all the 
time young Hamilton found himself 
nearer and nearer the platform. Finally, 
he undertook to reply to a talkative 
Tory, and some one shouted, " Give him 
the platform — the platform! " and in a 
moment this seventeen-year-old boy 

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found himself facing two thousand people. 
There was hesitation and embarrassment, 
V)ut the shouts of one of his college chums, 
'' Give it to *em! Give it to 'em! " filled 
ia an awkward instant, and he began to 
speak. There was logic and lucidity of 
expression, and as he talked the air be- 
came charged with reasons, and all he 
had to do was to reach up and seize them. 
^ His strong and passionate nature gave 
gravity to his sentences, and every 
quibbling objector found himself answered 
and more than answ^ered, and the speakers 
who were to present the case found this 
stripling doing the work so much better 
than they could, that they urged him on 
with, applause and loud cries of "Bravo! " 
Immediately at the close of Hamilton's 
speech, the chairman had the good sense 
to declare the meeting adjourned — thus 
simtting off all reply, as well as closing the 
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mouths of the minnow orators who 
usually pop up to neutralize the impression 
that the strong man has made. 
Hamilton's speech was the talk of the 
town. The leading Whigs sought him out 
and begged that he would write down his 
address so that they could print it as a 
pamphlet in reply to the Tory pam- 
phleteers who were vigorously circulating 
their wares. The pens of ready writers 
were scarce in those days: men could 
argue, but to present a forcible written 
brief was another thing. So young 
Hamilton put his reasons on paper, and 
their success surprised the boys at the 
boarding-house, and the college chums 
and the professors, and probably himself 
as well. His name was on the lips of all 
Whigdom, and the Tories sent messengers 
to buy him oflF. 

But Congress was willing to pay its 

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defenders, and money came from some- 
where — not much, but all the young man 
needed. College was dropped; the political 
pot boiled; and the study of history, 
economics and statecraft filled the day- 
light hours to the brim and often ran over 
into the night. 

The winter of Seventeen Hundred 
Seventy -five passed away; the plot 
thickened. New York had reluctantly 
consented to be represented in Congress 
and agreed grumpily to join hands with 
the Colonies. The redcoats had marched 
out to Concord — and back; and the em- 
battled farmers had stood and fired the 
shot " heard 'round the w^orld." 
Hamilton was working hard to brmg New 
York over to an understanding that she 
•must stand firm against English rule. He 
organized meetings, gave addresses, wrote 
letters, newspaper articles and pamphlets. 

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Then he joined a military company and 
perfected himself in the science of war. 
Then came the British ship *' Asia " and 
opened fire on the town. This no doubt 
made \\Tiigs of a good many Tories. 
Whig sentiment was on the increase; 
gangs of men marched through the streets 
and the king's stores were broken into, 
and prominent Royalists found their 
houses being threatened. 
Doctor Cooper, President of King's 
College, had been very pronounced in his 
rebukes to Congress and the Colonies, and 
a mob made its way to his house. Arriving 
there, Hamilton and his chum Troup were 
found on the steps, determined to protect 
the place. Hamilton stepped forward, and 
in a strong speech urged that Doctor 
Cooper had merely expressed his own 
private views, which he had a right to do, 
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be molested. While the parley was in 
progress, old Doctor Cooper himself 
appeared at one of the upper windows and 
excitedly cautioned the crowd not to 
listen to that blatant young rapscallion 
Hamilton, as he was a rogue and a varlet 
and a vagrom. The good Doctor then 
slammed the window and escaped by the 
back way *•► *^ 

His remarks raised a laugh in which even 
young Hamilton joined, but his mistake 
was very natural in view of the fact that 
he only knew that Hamilton had deserted 
the college and espoused the devil's cause; 
and not having heard his remarks, but 
seeing him standing on his steps harangu- 
ing a crowd, thought surely he was en- 
deavoring to work up mischief against 
his old preceptor, who had once plucked 
him in Greek. 



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IT seems to have been the inten- 
tion of his guardians that Jthe 
Hmit of young Hamilton's stay 
in America was to be two years, and by 
that time his education would be 
'* complete," and he would return to the 
West Indies and surprise the natives. 
But young Hamilton knew all that Nevis 
had in store for him: he knew its littleness, 
and in the secret recesses of his own 
strong heart he had slipped the cable 
that held him to the past. 
For England he once had had an idolatrous 
regard; to him she had once been the 
protector of his native land, the empress 
of the seas, the enlightener of mankind; 
but henceforth he was an American. 
He was to fight America's battles, to share 
in her victory, to help make of her a great 
Nation, and to weave his name into the 
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United States of America shall be re- 
membered, so long also shall be remember- 
ed the name of Alexander Hamilton. 

^^w^HAT General Washington called 
^ I ^ his "family " usually consisted of 
V M X sixteenmen.These were his aides, 
and more than that, his counselors and 
friends. In Washington's frequent use of 
that expression, '* my family," there is a 
touch of affection that we do not expect 
to find in the tents of war. In rank, the 
staff ran the gamut from captain to 
general. Each man had his appointed 
work and made a daily report to his chief. 
When not in actual action, the family 
dined together daily, and the affair was 
conducted with considerable ceremony. 
Washington sat at the head of the table, 
large, handsome and dignified. At his 
right hand was seated the guest of honor, 
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and there were usually several invited 
friends. At his left sat Alexander Hamilton 
ready with quick pen to record the orders 
of his chief. 

And methinks it would have been quite 
worth while to have had a place at that 
board, and looked down the table at " the 
strong, fine face, tinged with melan- 
choly," of Washington; and the cheery, 
youthful faces of Lawrence, Tilghman, 
Lee, Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton 
and the others of that brave and hand- 
some company. Well might they have 
called Washington father, for this he was 
in spirit to them all — grave, gentle, 
courteous and magnanimous, yet exacting 
strict and instant obedience from all; and 
well, too, may we imagine that this 
obedience was freely and cheerfully given. 
^ Hamilton became one of Washington's 
family on March First, Seventeen Hun- 

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dred Seventy-seven, with the rank of 
lieutenant-colonel. He was barely twenty 
years of age; Washington was forty-seven, 
and the average age of the family, omit- 
ting its head, was twenty-five. All had been 
selected on account of superior intelli- 
gence and a record of dashing courage. 
When Hamilton took his place at the 
board, he was the youngest member, save 
one. In point of literary talent, he stood 
among the very foremost in the country, 
for then there was no literature in America 
save the literature of politics; and as an 
officer, he had shown rare skill and 
bravery o^ *•• 

And yet, such was Hamilton's ambition 
and confidence in himself, that he 
hesitated to accept the position, and con- 
sidered it an act of sacrifice to do so. But 
having once accepted, he threw himself 
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most intimate and valued assistant. 
As an aide to Washington, Hamilton's 
most important mission was when he was 
sent to General Gates to secure reinforce- 
ments for the Southern army. Gates had 
defeated Burgoyne and won a full dozen 
stern victories in the North. In the mean- 
time, Washington had done nothing but 
make a few brave retreats. Gates' army 
was made up of hardy and seasoned 
soldiers, who had met the enemy and 
defeated him over and over again. The 
flush of success was on their banners; and 
Washington knew that if a few thousand 
of those rugged veterans could be secured 
to reinforce his own loyal, but well-nigh 
discouraged troops, victory would also 
perch upon the banners of the South. 
As a superior officer he had the right to 
demand these troops; but to reduce the 
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excellent success is not the common rule 
of war. The country looked upon Gates as 
its savior, and Gates was feeling a little 
that way himself. Gates had but to 
demand it, and the position of Command- 
er-in-Chief would go to him. Washington 
thoroughly realized this, and therefore 
hesitated about issuing an order request- 
ing a part of Gates' force. To secure these 
troops as if the suggestion came from 
Gates was a most delicate commission. 
Alexander Hamilton was dispatched to 
Gates' headquarters, armed, as a last 
resort,with a curt military order to the 
effect that he should turn over a portion 
of his army to Washington. Hamilton's 
orders were: "Bring the troops, but do 
not deliver this order unless you are 
obliged to." 

Hamilton brought the troops, and re- 
turned the order with seal intact. 
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^ x\t Yorktown, Washington gave Hamil- 
ton the perilous privilege of leading the 
assault. Hamilton did his work well, 
rushing with fiery impetuosity upon the 
fort — carried all before him, and in ten 
minutes had planted the Stars and Stripes 
on the raniparts of the enemy. 
It was a fine and fitting close to his 
glorious military career. 

^-«-^HEN Washington became 
^ I ^ President, the most important 
\M^f office to be filled was, that of 
manager of the exchequer. In fact, all 
there was of it was the office — there was 
no treasury, no mint, no fixed revenue, 
no credit; but there were debts — ^foreign 
and domestic — and clamoring creditors 
by the thousand. The debts consisted of 
what was then the vast sum of eighty 
million dollars. The treasury was empty. 

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Robert Morris, who had managed the 
finances during the period of the Confed- 
eration, utterly refused to attempt the task 
again, but he named a man who, he said, 
could bring order out of chaos, if any living 
man could. That man was Alexander Ham- 
ilton. Washington appealed to Hamilton, 
offering him the position of Secretary of 
the Treasury. Hamilton, aged thirty-two, 
gave up his law practise, which was 
yielding him ten thousand a year, to 
accept this office which paid three 
thousand five hundred. 
To such a degree of confidence did 
Hamilton raise the public credit that in a 
very short time the government found no 
trouble in borrowing^^all the money it 
needed at four per cent; and yet this was 
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'T has been the usual practise for 
nearly a hundred years to refer 
to Aaron Burr as a roue, a rogue 
and a thorough villain, who took the life 
of a gentle and innocent man. 
I have no apologies to make for Colonel 
Burr; the record of his life lies open in 
many books, and I would neither conceal 
nor explain away. 

If I should attempt to describe the man 
and liken him to another, that man 
would be Alexander Hamilton. 
They were the same age within ten 
months; they were the same height within 
an inch; their weight was the same within 
five pounds, and in temperament and 
disposition they resembled each other as 
brothers seldom do. Each was passionate, 
ambitious, proud. 

In the drawing-room where one of these 
men chanced to be, there was room for no 

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one else — such was the vivacity, the wit, 
and the generous, glowing good-nature 
shown. With women, the manner of these 
men was most gentle and courtly; and the 
low, alluring voice of each was music's 
honeyed flattery set to words. 
Both were much under the average height, 
yet the carriage of each was so proud and 
imposing that everywhere they went 
men made way, and women turned and 
stared. ^ Both were public speakers and 
lawyers of such eminence that they took 
their pick of clients and charged all the 
fee that policy would allow. In debate, 
there was a wilful aggressiveness, a fiery 
sureness, a lofty certainty, that moved 
judges and juries to do their bidding. 
In point of classic education. Burr had 
the advantage. He was the grandson of 
the Reverend Jonathan Edwards. In his 
strong personal magnetism, and keen, 
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many-sided intellect, Aaron Burr strongly 
resembled the gifted Presbyterian divine 
who wrote ** Sinners in the Hands of an 
Angry God." His father was the Reverend 
Aaron Burr, President of Princeton 
College. He was a graduate of Princeton, 
and, like Hamilton, always had the ability 
to focus his mind on the subject in hand, 
and wring from it its very core. Burr's 
reputation as to his susceptibility to 
women's charms is the world's common 
— very common — property 5«» He was 
unhappily married; his wife died before 
he was thirty; he was a man of ardent 
nature and stalked through the world a 
conquering Don Juan. 
Hamilton was happily married to a 
woman of aristocratic family; rich, 
educated, intellectual, gentle, and worthy 
of him at his best. They had a family of 
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of women evor^^^be re; and waslnb rod uj) ~ 
in • vario u s 'se€m<iftloH8 4»tt4^tte6 . Ek mas 
an--easy-^«fti^f or a"3esighin^-wauian . -fe 
oBe Jin s t a n c e , tb e-^ ff .i ir was ri oi ff r H ^^pn n 
by his political foes^Trrrd mat fc capital o f to 
his sore disadvantage* Hamik^ft-«aet4Jie 
issue by writing a pamphlet, laying feare- 
the entire- shameless affair," to the Horror 
oi his family antl friends, X^^ies^^ofthis 
pampyet-itiay beisieen' iff the roionig oftfte 
Am^rkaft'nigTDliL'nl Snrinty at Now Yovk-. 
Q Burr had been Attorney-General of 
New York State and also United States 
Senator. Each man had served on Wash- 
ington's staff; each had a brilliant 
military record; each had acted as second 
in a duel; each recognized the honor of 
the code. 

Stern political differences arose, not so 
much through matters of opinion and 
conscience, as through ambitious rivalry. 
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Neither was willing the other should rise, 

yet both thirsted for place and power. 

Burr ran for the Presidency, and was 

sternly, strongly, bitterly opposed as ** a 

dangerous man " by Hamilton. 

At the election one more electoral vote 

would have given the highest office of the 

people to Aaron Burr; as it was he tied 

with Jefferson. The matter was thrown 

into the House of Representatives, and 

Jefferson was given the office, with Burr 

as Vice-President. Burr considered, and 

perhaps rightly, that were it not for 

Hamilton's assertive influence he would 

have been President of the United States. 

fl While still Vice-President, Burr sought 

to become Governor of New York, 

thinking this the surest road to receiving 

the nomination for the Presidency at the 

next election *•► *•► 

Hamilton openly and bitterly opposed 

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Burr considered, and rightly, that were it 
not for Hamilton's influence he would 
have been Governor of New York. 
Burr, smarting un^ler the sting of this 
continual opposition by a man who him- 
self was shelved politically through his 
own too fiery ambition, sent a note by his 
friend Van Ness to Hamilton, asking 
whether the language he had used con- 
cerning him (** a dangerous man ") 
referred to him politically or personally. 
^Hamilton replied evasively, saying he 
could not recall all that he might have 
said during fifteen years of public life. 
" Especially,'* he said in his letter, " it 
can not be reasonably expected that I 
shall enter into any explanation upon a 
basis so vague as you have adopted. I 
trust on more reflection you will see the 
matter in the same light. If not, however, 
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When fighting men use fighting language 
they invite a challenge, Hamilton's ex- 
cessively polite regret that he " must 
abide the consequences *' simply meant 
fight, as his language had for a space of 
^^ five years. ^ 

A challenge was sent by the hand of 
Pendleton. Hamilton accepted. Being the 
challenged man (for duelists are always 
polite), he was given the choice of 
weapons. He chose pistols at ten paces. 
^, At seven o'clock on the morning of 
July Eleventh, Eighteen Hundred Four, 
the participants met on the heights of 
Weehawken, overlooking New York Bay. 
On a toss Hamilton won the choice of 
position and his second also won the right 
.)f giving the word to fire. 
Each man removed his coat and cravat; 

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the pistols were loaded in their presence. 
As Pendleton handed his pistol to Hamil- 
ton he asked, " Shall I set the hair- 
trigger? '* " Not this time," replied 
Hamilton. With pistols primed and 
cocked, the men were stationed facing 
each other, thirty feet apart. 9 Both were 
pale, but free from any visible nervous- 
ness or excitement. Neither had partaken 
of stimulants. Each was asked if he had 
anything to say, or if he knew of any way 
by which the affair could be terminated 
there and then. 

Each answered quietly in the negative. 
Pendleton, standing fifteen feet to the 
right of his principal, said: ** One — two — 
three — present! " and as the last final 
sounding of the letter "t" escaped his 
teeth, Burr fired, followed almost instantly 
by the other. 

Hamilton arose convulsively on his toes, 
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eled, and Burr, dropping his smoking 
istol, sprang towards him to support him, 
n look of regret on his face. 
Van Ness raised an unibrella over the 
fallen man, and motioned Burr to be gone. • 
^The ball passed through Hamilton's 
ody, breaking a rib, and lodging in the 
cond lumbar vertebra, 
he bullet from Hamilton's pistol cut a 
wig four feet above Burr's head. 
Hamilton died the following day, first 
declaring that he bore Colonel Burr no 
ill-will &^ &^ 

Colonel Burr said he very much regretted 

•he w^hole affair, but the language and 

titude of Hamilton forced him to send 

challenge or remain quiet and be 

randed as a coward. He fully realized 

«'fore the meeting that if he killed 

Hamilton it would be political death for 

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At the time of the deed Burr had no 
family; Hamilton had a wife and sevisn 
children, his oldest son having fallen in 
a duel fought three years before on the 
identical spot where he, too, fell. 
Burr fled the country. 
Three years afterward, he was arrested 
for treason in trj^ing to found an inde- 
pendent state within the borders of the 
United States. He was tried and found 
not guilty. 

After some years spent abroad he re- 
turned and took up the practise of law in 
New York. He was fairly successful, lived 
a modest, quiet life, and died September 
Fourteenth, Eighteen Hundred Thirty- 
six, aged eighty years. 
Hamilton's widow survived him just one- 
half a century, dying in her ninety-eighth 
year s^ s^ 

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